In Sister Golden Hair, we roam a 1970s landscape of macramé planters and candy dishes and polyester pants. Set in a community decaying from within, Darcey Steinke's new novel examines what ingredients make an American girl. ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/15/14

Jennifer Sky's book Queen of The Tokyo Ballroom (The Atavist) is a dark, wild, raw tale of fashion and fantasy. At 15 years old, Sky won a Seventeen Magazine modeling competition and was plucked from her rural, swampy Florida home and sent to Japan with nothing but glamorous promises. ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/05/14

In his debut novel, In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, Matt Bell cracks us in the mind's eye, drops us in inky waters, leaves us dripping with love potions and scarred from our innermost animal natures. ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 06/18/13

The Elementals is Francesca Lia Block's return to adult fiction. We follow Berkeley-bound Ariel as she travels between the landscapes of northern California and Los Angeles, dealing with her mother's cancer and the disappearance of her best friend. ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/15/12

In her debut novel The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets (Other Press), Kathleen Alcott lures us into the lives of Ida, Jackson, and James: a motherless girl who becomes best friends with the boy down the street and his younger brother. ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 09/11/12